The Ministry of Transport determined that the modernization of the Kerch crossing connecting the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory will begin on September, when a tourist flow subsides. Such a statement was made by the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov at a meeting of the interdepartmental working group for the work of the crossing.

One of the richest people in Ukraine and the president of Shakhtar football club Rinat Akhmetov, in an interview with R-Sport, expressed the hope that six squads of the squads who were not landing on a flight for a flight to Lviv on Sunday will soon return to the team’s location. He stated that he did not know what moved the players when making such a decision - the fear of returning to Ukraine in a restless period or an element of trade for a transition to another club.

The Russian government began to distribute the sanatoriums of Crimea that previously belonged to Ukraine between various Russian companies and state structures. On Monday, Kommersant writes about this with reference to the representative of the Department of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversees Crimea in the Cabinet of Ministers. According to the publication, recently four such health resorts have received at their disposal of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

About a hundred participants in the Seliger-2014 youth forum were in a hospital with food poisoning, Interfax reports on Monday with reference to one of the forum participants. “A lot of people were poisoned, about a hundred were sent to the hospital,” his source quotes the news agency. He also said that the victims, who are not so bad, remained in the camp.

At the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing, specialists found the bodies of 251 deceased and 66 fragments of tel. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Ukrainian rescuers. The bodies of the dead are loaded into the refractor wagons at the Torez railway station. In the Torez, as Interfax adds, the second train has already arrived for further transportation of bodies.

Latvia introduced three Russian pop artists - Oleg Gazmanov, Joseph Kobzon and Valery on the black list of people who are prohibited from entering the country. This was reported on the website of the Latvian foreign policy.

To the northeast of the coast of the Kuril Islands on Sunday, an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 occurred. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the US Geological Service. The epicenter of underground shocks was 94 km southeast of the city of Kurilsk. The focus of the earthquake lay at a depth of 60 km. There is no data on victims and destruction at the time of writing this note.

In Sochi on the mountain track 20 cars and 40 tourists remain blocked, which were there as a result of the melting flows on the road in the area of ​​the Rosa Khutor ski resort, ITAR-TASS reports. The day before, rescuers evacuated 60 people, but 40 people refused evacuation and remained next to their cars. Tourists spent the night in tents, nobody needed medical care.

On the territory of the ZIL plant in Moscow, the fourth fire has occurred over the past two months. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the representative of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to him, the former workshop of the building, which failed. There were no people inside the building. The area of ​​fire is not yet known. Smoke walked from the windows of the third floor. At the moment, the fire is extinguished.

The Rospotrebnadzor said that the cause of the food poisoning of the participants of the Seliger youth camp, which is held in the Tver region, could be gross sanitary violations in the work of the catering unit. It is reported by Interfax . According to the agency, in total, 142 participants in the camp were poisoned , 34 of them were hospitalized. Three victims are in a state of moderate severity, the rest have a slight form of poisoning.

On July 21 (8), 1898 , Georgy Langemak, the creator of Katyusha, a pioneer of missile technology, was the first to use the term “astronautics”. Personal business Georgy Erikhovich Langemak (1898-1938) was born in Starobelsk in the Kharkov province in a German family and Swiss who accepted Russian citizenship. After the gymnasium graduated, he decided to devote his life to Japanese literature and entered the philological faculty of Petrograd University. However, he was soon drafted into the army.

As a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, three people were killed with Ukrainian security forces. This was reported by the Agency " Ostrov " with reference to its own correspondent. According to the agency, among the dead two men and one woman. It is noted that the residents of the district are hiding in the basement of the school. “People do not know how to get out of a dangerous area. Those who have personal transport leave.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, July 22, which will be devoted to ensuring the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Kremlin press service. Last night, the president made a special statement regarding the collapse of the passenger Boeing “Malaysian Airlines” in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

The collapse of the Malaysian passenger aircraft on July 17, 2014 in Ukraine is everywhere discussed in the Western press. Following functionally, this plot mainly serves as a reason for transferring the topic of conflict around Ukraine into a global context. Now it is connected to it and talk about Israel and Gaza, and the prospects for investing in developing economies, and the topic of consolidation of the West, represented by the EU and the USA.

The remains of passengers of a crashed Malaysian aircraft on July 21 were immersed on a train. This was told by the head of the group of forensic experts from the Netherlands, reports Reuters. “Today the train will go. They gave us such a promise, ”the expert told reporters at the Torez station station. According to him, he does not know the exact time when the train leaves, he also does not know the direction, but this should be a place where experts will be able to calmly do their job.